Picking a Bible for Little Hearts

[mamaduke]

I am very seriously considering Little Hearts for my 5 year old ds. I understand that Bible reading is a big chunk of the history time. We have Cathrine Voss's Child's Story Bible that we use for bedtime stories. There are not many pictures and he listens well.

I'm trying to decide on using that for the Bible reading time or purchasing the age appropriate Family Bible. Or even using an actual Bible for the readings. Again, we already read daily as a family from the Bible.

I suppose I want to save money, but don't want to take away a valuable/fun part of the daily lessons or make them repetitious to what he already gets. Unless we were to stop using Voss for bedtime and use it for school time.

Also, we chose Voss's book because we believe the paraphrases stay close to scripture. We are Reformed in doctrine and want to be careful about any other doctrines implied in curriculum books.

Any ideas here are appreciated. Thanks, Julie
Ds 5
Twin dds 2
due in Aug

[Melanie]

Hi Julie!
The Bibles that Carrie has chosen are very good. I do understand your concern...I'm like that as well. I did choose to just read from the actual Bible and it went great for us (we are finished with that part of Little Hearts now). I do think it is important for them to learn to use a Bible and we have used this as an opportunity to begin teaching them how to find the book, chapter and verse. Mine are a little older though...we started Little Hearts at 6 and 5.

I think either way you go will be good for you and I think you'll be happy with Carrie's Bible choices.
Mel

[netpea]

I have Carrie's bible selections and I like them. But last year, my kids got into daily readings from a One Year Bible. They listened to most of bible that way. (I was partway through when they started listening.)

If your children like listening to you reading straight from the bible, then go ahead and use it and use your other bible storybook as you wish.